The end of Part I left off when I, onetime vicious detractor of Harry Potter, went to the library and checked out Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I wanted to read the series for myself, to understand whether my former opinions were true, as well as to scope out what made the bestselling books […]
Harry Hater to Potterhead: A Christian Reader’s Journey (Part II)
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Thursday Ramblings – 1.26.12
Thursday is the new Tuesday! Writing This Week: I am currently pounding out a new chapter of The Queen in the Wooden Box. I’ve been wanting to TKT (yes, I do use that as a verb…years of TKTing has caused that), but my priority this week is cousin-pleasing! Although, I suppose, I don’t know exactly […]
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No Tuesday Ramblings?
Today is Tuesday! So there should be a Ramblings, no? Well…here’s the thing. I’ve gradually come to realize that Tuesday is a terrible day for me to blog. It’s the day I go grocery shopping (“fooding”, as we say in my family) and so all my free time and computer time on Tuesday is taken […]
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In Your Book Were Written…
Our pastor is currently preaching a short sermon series on Psalm 139. This has been one of my favorite passages for years – it is such an amazing text about God’s providence, knowledge, and wisdom. He knows us to the very depths of our souls, even before birth. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me […]
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Harry Hater to Potterhead: A Christian Reader’s Journey (Part I)
I must have been barely a teen when the Harry Potter craze struck, sweeping all our friends away with it. I don’t remember asking to read the books, or even if the first movie was out yet. I just recall that many of our friends were obsessed, and my parents made the decision to ban […]
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